Mindfulness Wellbeing should replace growth as 'main aim of UK spending'The Guardian - Richard PartingtonPersonal wellbeing rather than economic growth should be the primary aim of government spending, according to a report by the former head of the civil service and politicians. Launching a report urging
News Theresa May expected to name exit date on FridayThe Guardian - Rowena Mason and Rajeev SyalTheresa May is widely expected to announce on Friday that she will resign as Conservative leader, amid deep concerns among centrist cabinet ministers that candidates to be the next prime minister will
Play buttonPolitics 'Vote in your own country': EU citizens tell of UK poll chaosThe Guardian - Emma Graham-HarrisonEU citizens in the UK are being denied their democratic right to vote in the European elections because of administrative errors by local councils. EU nationals across the country have been reporting they
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson’s bid for Tory leadership gathers momentumThe Guardian - Rowena Mason Deputy political editorBoris Johnson’s leadership campaign was gathering steam on Thursday, amid deep concern among centrist Conservatives that a Brexit hardliner is on the brink of becoming prime minister. The former foreign
Play buttonPolitics UK government may face court action after EU citizens denied voteThe Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondentThe government is facing calls to launch an urgent investigation into the treatment of EU citizens in the European elections after many people reported being denied their democratic right to vote. Voters
Politics Councils admit failure to send out EU postal ballots in timeThe Guardian - Emma Graham-Harrison and Lisa O'CarrollAt least three local councils across England and Wales have admitted that they ran out of time to print and send postal ballots for the European elections to some overseas voters, leaving them effectively
Opinion (UK) Call Mark Spencer Xenon. He may be inert, but at least he’s a gasThe Guardian - John CraceThe front and back doors had been bolted and padlocked. In a darkened attic room, Theresa May scanned the CCTV footage for signs of intruders. So far, so good. Hunt, Saj and Govey were well outside the
Theresa May Advice for Theresa May from him indoorsThe Guardian - LettersSo BlackRock’s Larry Fink (Report, 21 May) says “Our firm is built to protect and grow the value of our clients’ assets – our personal views on environmental or social issues don’t matter here.” One can
Liberal Democrats European election predictions: what the pollsters are forecastingThe Guardian - Dan SabbaghNigel Farage’s expected victory will have the biggest impact on the crisis-ridden Tories Nigel Farage’s Brexit party stood at 32% in an average of four polls on Tuesday, with one putting the party on remarkable
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson lied during EU referendum campaign, court toldThe Guardian - Ben QuinnBoris Johnson lied and engaged in criminal conduct when he repeatedly claimed during the 2016 EU referendum that the UK sent £350m a week to Brussels, lawyers for a crowdfunded private prosecution of MP
Dominic Raab Brussels rejects 'fraudulent' Raab claim used in election videoThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in BrusselsThe European commission has described a claim made by the Conservative leadership hopeful Dominic Raab about a key EU official’s views on Brexit as “fake, fraudulent and pure disinformation” after it spread
News Broadcasters in legal bind over reporting on Tory crisis during electionThe Guardian - Jim Waterson Media editorAttempts by Conservative MPs to remove Theresa May from office during the European elections are causing problems for British broadcasters, which are struggling to work out what developments they are allowed
Play buttonAndrea Leadsom Andrea Leadsom quits over Theresa May's Brexit billThe Guardian - Heather Stewart and Peter WalkerAndrea Leadsom has resigned as the leader of the House of Commons, saying she no longer believed the government’s approach would deliver Brexit. Leadsom, who has signalled she expects to launch a leadership
Play buttonAndrea Leadsom May clutches at final straws of pretence as Leadsom resignsThe Guardian - Peter Walker, Rowena Mason and Rajeev SyalA truly bad day for Theresa May, one which would certainly count as the worst-ever for many other prime ministers, actually began very late the previous night as the newspaper front pages dropped on social
Iain Duncan Smith Duncan Smith calls for May's cabinet to quit if Brexit bill publishedThe Guardian - Matthew WeaverThe former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has stepped up the pressure on Theresa May by urging her cabinet to resign en masse if the revised EU withdrawal bill is published on Friday. Downing
Play buttonNews Pressure grows on May to quit as Leadsom resigns over Brexit dealThe Guardian - Heather Stewart, Rajeev Syal and Rowena MasonTheresa May faces the stark choice of quitting or being turfed out of Downing Street by her own party, after Andrea Leadsom resigned from the cabinet amid a furious backlash against the prime minister’s
Polling What's happening where you are on polling day?The Guardian - Guardian readersThe UK didn’t expect to vote in the 2019 European elections yet here we are. This is the place to share your stories from wherever you are on polling day in words, pictures or video. Show us what’s been
News European elections: Britons abroad complain of missing ballot papersThe Guardian - Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondentThe government is facing fresh questions over postal votes after multiple complaints from Britons overseas that they did not receive their ballot papers in time for the European elections. On the eve the
Play buttonEuropean Union Choose your future: EU tries to raise turnout with viral campaignThe Guardian - Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsA bawling newborn is lifted on to the chest of its exhausted mother. A tear slips down a father’s face. The camera cuts to another baby, revealing the moment of its arrival in the world. Shock, wonder,
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson targets centre-ground Tories in bid to widen appealThe Guardian - Rowena Mason Deputy political editorBoris Johnson is launching a bid to court One Nation Conservative MPs in the group of centrist liberals run by Amber Rudd, as he tries to pitch himself as a candidate who can appeal beyond rightwing Brexit
Play buttonAndrea Leadsom Leadsom's resignation helps steal a march on Tory leadership rivalsThe Guardian - Rajeev SyalAndrea Leadsom’s resignation has, her friends believe, pushed her to the front of the cabinet Brexiters jockeying for position to replace Theresa May. Her decision to resign as leader of the House of may
Change UK Change UK pays for Facebook ad blitz amid dismal EU poll ratingsThe Guardian - Jim Waterson Media editorChange UK has run a last-minute Facebook advertising campaign to try to shore up its support amid dismal poll ratings for the European elections, but most other parties have mostly avoided large spending
Theresa May 'End of the road': what the papers say as pressure builds on Theresa MayThe Guardian - Kate LyonsThe knives are out for Theresa May on today’s front pages. Several papers feature a picture of Theresa May in the back of her car “gazing tearfully” out of the window as the Mirror puts it. That paper
Nigel Farage Nigel Farage shelters on campaign bus to avoid milkshake attackThe Guardian - Amy WalkerNigel Farage has been forced to seek refuge on his campaign bus after being stalked by people carrying milkshakes in Kent, according to reports. The Brexit party leader and his campaign team seemed keen
Opinion (UK) Maybot plods on, each day a greater torment than the lastThe Guardian - John CraceMany believe that hearing is the last sense to be lost. If true, Theresa May must have been a goner for some time now. She hasn’t heard a word anyone has said to her for months. Her cabinet ministers all
Change UK Heidi Allen threatened to quit as Change UK leader over Lib Dem rowThe Guardian - Frances PerraudinThe Change UK leader, Heidi Allen, has said she threatened to resign during an internal party row over whether to endorse voting tactically for the Liberal Democrats in the EU elections. In a Channel News
Penny Mordaunt Tory leadership: the runners and ridersThe Guardian - Peter Walker Political correspondentWith Theresa May facing ever-increasing pressure from her backbenchers to name the date on which she will quit No 10, you can barely move in Westminster without bumping into a minister making a “wide-ranging”
Play buttonSteve Bannon Nigel Farage discussed fronting far-right group led by Steve BannonThe Guardian - Peter Walker and Paul LewisNigel Farage discussed the idea of fronting a global alliance of populist and far-right politicians being put together by the controversial former White House strategist Steve Bannon, it has emerged. said
Opinion (UK) Tactical voting in European elections can have unintended consequencesThe Guardian - LettersIn a proportional representation election, it can be counterproductive to become embroiled in debates on tactical voting (Letters, 21 May). However, my mind goes back to the debacle in the north-west during
